Seems to me five districts that map as closely as possible to the five communities makes the most sense. Of course, part of New Encinitas and/or eastern Cardiff would have to go with Olivenhain to balance out the population. What do you think?Additional public meeting set to discuss proposed voting districts
Oct. 30 meeting will give residents another chance to weigh in
ENCINITAS, CA - The City of Encinitas has added another public meeting for residents to review and discuss proposed voting districts as part of the city's exploration of district-based elections. The meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 30 at 6 p.m. at Encinitas City Hall, 505 S. Vulcan Avenue.
This added meeting will give residents one more chance to review and provide comments on the proposed boundaries before the City Council is anticipated to vote for its preferred option at its Nov. 8, 2017 meeting.
Draft boundary maps are also available to view online by visiting www.encinitasca.gov and searching "draft maps." Residents may provide comments about the maps via email at encinitas@ndcresearch.com or in person at the Oct. 30 meeting.
Since August, the City of Encinitas is in the process of exploring the transition to a system where City Council members are elected by district instead of serving at-large. If approved, the new system would begin with the November 2018 election.
So far, the city has held three public meetings on the topic. The Oct. 30 and Nov. 8 meetings will round out the public outreach on this issue. Both will be held at 6 p.m. at Encinitas City Hall.
For more information, please visit www.encinitasca.gov or call (760) 633-2600.
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Another meeting on council district maps
City announcement:
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ReplyDeleteCity full of maroons....lololollll.
I'll have what he's sitting on.
Delete4 plus an at-large mayor.
ReplyDeleteI’d rather have two people on council accountable to my vote than one.
Olivenhain (plus eastern New Encinitas and eastern Cardiff)
New Encinitas.
Coastal South (Cardiff plus southern Old Encinitas)
Coastal North. (Leucadia plus northern Old Encinitas)
8:08am sounds like 'his lowness' showing his ignorance once again.
ReplyDeleteThe term to which he is referring to is moron. He has used this for years now here, and it is an ideal moniker for the person he sees when he looks in a mirror.
You are a moron, and we all wish you would maroon yourself somewhere, anywhere else, but here.
There goes that bought and paid for on-line college degree working again so well for you. Please do maroon yourself asap.
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DeleteYou are the leaders of the maroons.
Dive head first into one or all porta potties the city has installed. Free housing for the homeless....lololollll lololollll lololollll lololollll..lololollll.
Four districts and an elected mayor is the best choice that we have before us.
ReplyDeleteThere are a couple of council members that should never be allowed to sit in the mayors seat on a rotating basis, even for a year at a time like we had in the past, and that became untenable.
Repeating that now, would show how little we will have learned from past history.
Preserving five districts and an elected mayor should not be an option, either.
It sucks that we will only be able to vote for one council member in whatever district we live in, where we now vote for all of them and the mayor.
I have to wonder if the shyster Malibu lawyer Shenckman has been asked whether he would even accept five districts at all, no matter how equal the population numbers were gerrymandered. Answering that should be found out, asap. We will still be sued if we choose to hold onto five districts? I wouldn't take that bet at the present time.
Simple: If you want to keep your 5 communities, pick 5. I pick 5! Additionally, rotating a Mayor would fairly represent each community.
ReplyDeleteCottonwood Creek and 7-11 are a district - for the bums.
ReplyDelete11:01pm. Simple it is not. If someone like you wants to preserve an example that failed miserably in the recent past, you are correct.
ReplyDeleteYou fail to acknowledge that situation became an utter failure and demanded that we need to vote for a mayor.
That has not changed one iota, since then.
The question of whether Shenckman will accept five districts needs to answered, no matter how the boundaries are redrawn to even out the residents population numbers.
My bet is, he will sue us if we try to maintain the five communities in their current state, or rather the gerrymandered community boundaries that need to be changed to even out these resident numbers.
Will he give up his demands for districting if we go for five districts instead of four? That has never been answered and should be.
If Shenckman will accept five districts, then perhaps it could be worked out, and we could have a rotating mayor.
The failure of this strategy in the past was only too evident and thus we have an elected mayor now.
We are all losing, one way or the other, with this shysters demands That we will only be able to vote for a single council candidate in our own districts, along with the mayor, is not something we all should support, but have to accept.
There are some on our current council that should never be allowed to sit in the mayors seat.
Shenckman needs to be asked and answered whether he will accept four or five districts.
Once that has been answered, we should know which of the four or five districts we can support.
Having an elected mayor demands four districts, whether Shenckman chimes in or not. I suspect he will have an opinion that our city will have to follow.
Until we know this, nothing can proceed. Four or five, is in his hands, not ours.
Since we have decided to not contest his demands, we are at his mercy.
Four districts or five? Shenckman, it is in your hands. Not ours.
Do Shenckman controls the future of Encinitas?? He doesn't live here. Eff him. I'd have more respect for this lawsuit if a Encinitas Latino was the one suing. Marco you are slipping...
DeleteAt the City Council meeting it was pointed out that Shenckman didn't specifically mention we had to remove the Mayor, so the city was going to go with 4 districts and they are sure he won't sue. Since the voters voted for an elected mayor, we are now stuck with that.
ReplyDeleteNo, we are NOT stuck with 4 and an elected Mayor. We can easily go with 5 districts and a rotating Mayor - I think this is the fairest way.
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